Improvement in milk-pails with strainers attached



time @uw LOYAL MgDToDDRmGn-OF NEW MOUNT PLEASANT, INDIANA.'

Leners Patent N. 103,158, dared May 1r, 1s7o.

i iMPaovT-.MENT IN MILK-Pains WITH sTRAINE'Rs ATTACHED.

l The Scheduley referred` to in these Letters Patent and making pan o the same.

To all ioltonit may concern:

Beit known` that I, Loiret.` M. DODDRIDGE, of New l Mount Pleasant, in `the `county of 'Jay and4 State of Indiana, have inyented certain Improvements in Milk- .Bucketsi a-ndI do hereby declare `that the following 1s a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference T being had tothe annexed drawings making part of this specification, in which---V` Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved bucket, shewingthe funnels on its'top through which the milk passes into the same, vand the nozzles upon its sides `through which it isstrained out.

Figure 2 isa` vertical central section of the sam'f vshowingl a large compartment for the first milking, land asmaller che .for the strippings or last' milking, and the nozzles covered with `strainers through which theimilk is poured fromthe bucket.

T Corresponding letters denote corresponding parts `in both figures.

' 1n milk-buckets, as heretofore constructedfor straining the milk from them, `no provision has been made for keeping the strippings 'separate fromthe first milking, orthat portion of the :milk rst extracted from j theanimal; and, as Ta consequence, thetwo kinds of Tl milk have been allowed tTo mingle in said bucket.

The desirable-ness of keeping the strippings or richer portion of themilknseparate fromthe tirst or poorer portion has long been recognized, but it has been j common to use a separateV vessel for Vthat purpose, Tthus causing `great inconvenience to the dairynmn,v 1andinecessitating,adclay in straining the same until it can Vbe carriedtosome suitable place for that pnl'- pose. f T

The present invention isv designed to remedy the objections above alluded to, and toTthis end-` It consists in producing aTmilk-bucket lhaving a T large' compartment for the reception of the 'first Textracted or.` poorer port-ion ,of the milk, and another andsmailer compartmntfor the reception of' the last T extractedor lricher portion,`soarrauged that the whole' operation maybe performed without removing the bucket, as willbeniorefullydescribed hereinafter. T

Ain the drawingsrefcrs to a milk-bucket which may be of any approved'omand of anydesired size it isto be provided with a'. bail for lifting andY carryy ing the same, and with handles for tilting it vwhen it is desirable to empty ont its contents.

Upon the top of .that portion or compartment of the bucket designated by the letterA, there is to be' a funnel-shaped projection, B, which, at its lower end, communicates with such compartment. T

Into this funnel the iirst portionA of the milk 'extracted is directed, and is discharged'there'om through the Astrari'er-covcred spout C, which is attached to the side of the bucket near its upper end.

The strainer shownTiu the drawings-is composed of .'a ring of metal, Ythe interior diameter of which is of a size t0 permit it to be slipped over the end ot'l the spout C, while, to its outer end, there is tobe soldered-a. disk of fine wire-gauze for straining the milk `as'itp'asses out. T

I) refers to a smaller compartmeut of the bucket,

which is formed by extending a partition, D', across the same, as shown in tig. 2.

' The upper portion of this compartment is to be provided with Ta funnel, E, which communicates therewitl1,fand witlrza strainer-covered spout, F,'similar to those already described.

Into the last-named compartment the strippings or richer portion of -the milk is to be directed, by which means it will be kept separate from the' other or poorer portion, and from which it may .be strained through the spout F into any vessel prepared for its reception.v

I have-described the strainers attached to the bucket as formed of a ringof metal and of wiregauze, by which means they are Yeasilydetached from the spouts for cleaning; but it -is apparent that any suitable kind of cloth may be used if preferred, such cloth being lheld in position by the hand, or itvmay' be secured to the spout by a string, lor by apiece of small wire; T

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim, and desire to ,secure by Letters Patent, is-' 1. A milk-bucket, combining in its construction two compartments, eachhaving its induction and educ` tion-apertures, substantially as and furthe purpose` Tset forth.

2. .The arrangement of the induction-tunnels B and E, and ednction-spouts C and F,snbstautiall y as shown and described.

In testimony whereof l' have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. T

LOYAL M. DDDRDGE.. Witnesses f CHARLES P. STARK, 0. C; OABTWRIGHT. 

